I gave up on my "round the world Numista style" threads because people kept adding and splitting countries (If you don't know what they are, we tried to get people to post pictures of a coin from every country in the Numista catalogue in order.)
It's been a while since we've had one of these game threads, so I thought I'd start off a new one. Let's try to get a coin listed from a country starting with each letter of the alphabet. I'll start with a country that starts with "A" The next person posts a coin from a country beginning with "B" and so on until we get to "Z"
The only rule is you can't post numerous times in a row. Let someone else have a go in between posting coins.
Obv: Large cross; annulets at each point
Rev: Todor Svetoslav facing on horseback right, holding cross-tipped scepter; left legend - ΘЄO; right legend – цр
Faramurz (433-443AH/1041-1051AD) AV Dinar, Isbahan, 435AH (Walker-1656; Album-1592)
Obv: لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له السلطان المعظم طغرل بك ⫯ ∩ (There is no deity except (the one) God alone. He has no equal; Sultan Tughril Beg)
Obv Inner Margin: بسم الله ضرب هذا الدينار أصفهان سنة خمس وثلثين واربع مائة (In the name of God, this dinar was struck at Isbahan in year 35 and four hundred)
Obv Outer Margin: لله الأمر من قبل ومن بعد ويومئذ يفرح المؤمنون بنصر الله (To God belongs the order before and after; and in that day the believers shall rejoice in the help of God)
Rev: شمس محمد رسول الله القـائم بامـر الله الامـير فرامرز (shams, Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah, al-Qa'im bi-amri 'llah, Prince Faramurz)
Rev Margin: محمد رسول الله ارسله بالهدى ودين الحق ليظهره على الدين كله ولو كره المشركون (Muhammad is the messenger of God. He sent him with guidance and the true religion to reveal it to all religions even if the polytheists abhor it)
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N - Nepal (1 Mohar of Prithvi Narayan Shah from 1754)
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Sultan Sa’Id bin Barghash (1870-1888) AE Pysa (KM#1)
Obv: Scales with date in between; ١٢٩٩ (1299 AH)
Rev: Arabic Legend in 5 lines; اللة سلطان سعيد بن برغش بن سلطان حفظه (Allah Sultan Sa'id bin Barghash bin Sultan, May Allah save him)
Obv: In the field, full circle with dot inside; around, marginal legend: circle, لا إله إلا الله وحده (There is no god but Allah); traces of outer circle
Rev: In the field, semi-circle with dot inside; around, marginal legend:ضرب هذا الفلس بحمص (Struck this fals of Hims); traces of outer circle
Quote: "MonaSeaclaid"Quant.Geek be honest, you have these coins ready and waiting for these letters to come up.
I have to go through my gallery to search for them, but I do have most of the letters . The idea is to post countries that you normally don't find or don't know about...
C. Memmius C.F. (56 BCE) AR Denarius, Rome (Crawford-427/1; Sydenham-920; Memmia-10; RBW-1531)
Obv: Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears; C•MEMMI•C•F downward before
Rev: Naked captive, his hands tied behind, kneeling right, at foot of trophy of arms with a Greek shield; IMPERATOR downward to left; C•MEMMIVS downward to right
Obv: INVIC - TA ROMA; Helmeted, draped bust of Roma right wearing double pearl necklace
Rev: D N ATHAL - ARICVS; King standing front, head right, holding scepter and resting left hand on shield, S - C across field, X in left field below the S
Obv: Arabic legend in three lines; الاعظم خاقان العادل (The Just, Supreme Khan)
Rev: Arabic laqab of caliph al-Nasir in four lines; الناصر لدين الله أمير المؤمنين (Defender of the Faith, Commander of the Faithful)
Quote: "MonaSeaclaid"Quant.Geek be honest, you have these coins ready and waiting for these letters to come up.
I have to go through my gallery to search for them, but I do have most of the letters . The idea is to post countries that you normally don't find or don't know about...
Quote: "COINMAN1"Neil,
Sorry no coin, but what about starting at a low face value and going up?
Great minds think alike. I was pondering this one but I think I've got something better....we'll let this one get back to A, unless you want to go another round. There's still plenty of countries and plenty of coins.
Obv: In center; Asomtavruli ႰႱႬ (RSN), standing for RuSudaNi, surmounted by the queen’s monogram being a part of the ornamental device. Surrounded by a linear border. Asomtavruli characters ႵႩႬჃႫႦ (K’KNUMZ, standing for the date formula K’oroniKoN UMZ, i.e. 447, which corresponds to 1227, the frozen date) are placed into the right, bottom and left compartments between the ornamental device and the linear border
Rev: name and titles of Rusudan in Arabic in four lines across field surrounded by a beaded or a linear border;
الملكة الملوك والملكات; Queen of Kings and Queens
جلال الدنيا والدين; Glory of the World, Kingdom and Faith
روسدان بنت تامار ظهير المسح; Rusudan, daughter of Tamar, Champion of the Messiah
عزالله انصاره; May God increase [her] victories
Usurper Isaac Comnenus (1185-1191) Æ Aspron Trachy, Type A (Sear-1991; DOC-IV, 2.1)
Obv: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. MP OV in field.
Rev: Full-length figure of emperor on left, and St. George, beardless and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at the base of which a small globe. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in right hand. Saint wears short military tunic and breast-plate; holds sword in left hand.
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Quote: "KasparsLV"P.S.
I propose additional rule- Countries can not repeat also.
Then we'd get hopelessly stuck on X.
(Maybe Q too, I'm not sure.)
Here is a nearly complete list of countries starting with X:
- Xin Dynasty (9-23 AD in China - perhaps the easiest X to get)
- Xinjiang (large variety of mostly rare types, some actually say Sinkiang)
- Xi Xia (medieval Chinese breakaway state, also known as Hsi Hsia or Western Xia)
- Xanthos (obscure Greek, formerly Lycian, city state)
- Xalostotitlan (Mexican city, one 19th century local issue)
All except Xin and Xinjiang are very rare to extremely rare. IIRC there are 1-2 other possibilities, of similar rarity.
I've seen some people trying for the alphabet set using individual Chinese emperors for X (such as Xianfeng).
Xanten in Germany is sometimes suggested, but it only made notgeld banknotes (not coins).
Quote: "Quant.Geek"C - Cyprus, Kingdom of
Usurper Isaac Comnenus (1185-1191) Æ Aspron Trachy, Type A (Sear-1991; DOC-IV, 2.1)
Obv: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. MP OV in field.
Rev: Full-length figure of emperor on left, and St. George, beardless and nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft at the base of which a small globe. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in right hand. Saint wears short military tunic and breast-plate; holds sword in left hand.
Quote: "Jarcek"Quant.Geek? Where are you taking those maps from? They are awesome!!
Please, let it be free source, so we can add them to Numisdoc!!!
Aside from wikimedia/wikipedia, the two other sites that have oodles of maps that I use extensively are (especially the first one):
Quote: "Jarcek"Quant.Geek? Where are you taking those maps from? They are awesome!!
Please, let it be free source, so we can add them to Numisdoc!!!
Quote: "Jarcek"Thanks!! And for others, sorry for spamming
Yes, that was an annoying question and definitely not one I was going to ask myself.
Somebody mentioned that we'd run out of X countries pretty quickly...I wonder if we kept this up, eliminating letters as we ran out of countries, which letter would be the last one standing.
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Obv: Straight-back bust, rising above the garden, flames emerging from both shoulders, single ribbon behind, rising; Brahmi legend above
Rev: Remnants of Fire altar and attendants design
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Phraates III (ca. 70-57 BCE) AR Drachm, Mithradatkart Mint (Sellwood-39.6; Sunrise-343)
Obv: Long bearded bust left in diadem bound tiara, decorated with a horn on side and a row of recumbent stags around the crest, pellet ended spiral torque, dotted border.
Rev: Archer enthroned right, monogram below bow, six-line Greek inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY ΑΡΣΑΚΟY ΕYΕΡΓΕΤΟY ΕΠIΦΑNOYΣ ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝΟΣ
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U - United States of America (1/2 Dollar from 1964)
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Xinjiang-
AH 1274/5 (1874/5) Sinkiang (Xinjiang) 1/2 Miscal minted under the Muslim rebellion of Yakub Beg in the name of the Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz, VF+
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Quote: "KasparsLV"P.S.
I propose additional rule- Countries can not repeat also.
This I simply assumed. It would make it more fun - and more difficult! I also reckon you must own the coin and provide your own pictures. Not just copying a picture from another site. That's cheating.
Great idea! All I could think of was this cute little 5 Stotinki from 1888 (KM# 9), struck under the rule of Ferdinand I. I got it in a swap with a Bulgarian Numista member.
"For by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much, while for the most part they know nothing"
-Plato
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. The idea is to post countries that you normally don't find or don't know about... 
I also reckon you must own the coin and provide your own pictures. Not just copying a picture from another site. That's cheating.
